University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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EQ THE OREGANA a University color, the editor prophesied that the new name would meet with immediate favor. The Oregon Monthly discontinued publication in 1912 and the Emerald changed to a thrice-a-week, six column paper, its present size. al 4: 4' 'P Oregon first began the publication of a year book in 1901, and these publications also throw interesting light upon University life during the past seventeen years. The Webfoot was the name chosen for the first issues, but the name was changed in 1907 to the Uni- versity of Oregon Bulletin. The books during this period were about one-fifth the present size of the Oregana, their successor. wk , :la lk 'K The Bulletin of 1906 reviews the football history of the Uni- versity up to that time. Football began, the Bulletin said, in 1894, and although no victory was won material was developed that enabled the University to win distinction the following year and in 1896. In 1897, however, the team was weak and went down to defeat. The next year football work was begun on a systematic basis and in 1900, two years later, the University was victorious over the University of California. In 1901 the team was weak and lost its big games. In 1903 the state championship was won, and in 1904, under the leadership of Coach Dick Smith, Oregon won the Northwest championship. Bill Hayward, present football trainer and track coach, ex- pressed this attitude in 1906 in regard to the next year's prospect in track: I am well pleased with the showing this year. I hope, if I am here, to take the team to California next year, and believe we will have a good chance to win. The Bulletin as a name for the year book was dropped in 1908, the University feeling that Beaver would be a more expres- sive name for the book. In 1909, however, the name was again changed, this time to The Oregana, and the following reason was given by the class of 1910, which was in charge of the book for that year: The name 'Beaver,' given last year's publication, was an es- pecially good one, but since our friends as Corvallis have chosen to adopt the sobriquet wholesale for all their different activities, we will let them have the term and move ahead. ' The Midnight Doughnut was the name of an interesting in- wenty-nine 'T'

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dI'kj THE OREGANA - dependent weekly newspaper issued during the latter part of 1909, under the editorship of Lair Gregory, at present a Portland news- paper man. Aside from covering the news field in competition with the Emerald , which was at that time the same size as the four column, four page independent weekly, The Doughnut conducted an unsuccessful campaign against the terms pigger, pigging and to pig, which are still Oregon's distinctive and original way of expressing what other universities, according to their individual tradition, call queening, fussing and wooing. According to the Doughnut's explanation the term pigger originated at the University of Oregon in 1903 or 1904, when a Freshman, living at Friendly Hall visited a girl living on a farm near Springfield-visited her about three times a week until it be- came noticeable. Then classmates elicited the information that her father raised pigs and how are the pigs ? became a standing ques- tion and the Freshman became one who visited the pigs, later a pigger. Soon, the Doughnut said, anyone who went to visit a co-ed anywhere was said to be pigging, or referred to for the time as a pigger. L 1 President Campbell Thlrty-one 1 .